Posts tagged with "airports"

October 9th, 2017Larnaca airport experienced long queues and other minor problems on Monday at as authorities enforced a European directive that provides for stricter passport checks.
The Cyprus News Agency reported that the main reason for the problems was the lack of police staff at the immigration booths.
Long queues were formed but there was no...

August 12th, 2017In an effort to further upgrade its services, Kapnos airport shuttle has introduced a web check-in point from its office in Nicosia.
By having their boarding card in hand, passengers can avoid inconvenience and delays at the airport, the company announced on Friday.
A new specially designed area at the Nicosia office now also...

August 7th, 2017A record number of flights is expected over the next two weeks according to airport operator Hermes
A total of 1,960 flights with about 320,000 passengers on board will travel to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports between Monday and Sunday, August 13.
"On average, there will be 280 flights a day and approximately 45,000...

August 4th, 2017With 1.4 million flights this month Larnaca and Paphos airports are busier than ever, and passengers are advised to be at the airport at least two hours before their flight, airport operator Hermes spokesman Adamos Aspris said on Friday.
“The main message to the public is that we need the passengers’ collaboration,” he said....

August 1st, 2017Next month, a record 1.4 million passengers are expected to travel to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports, with August 6 expected to be the busiest day of ever.
“The passenger traffic in August will surpass every previous record. This August will be the month with the most passenger traffic ever recorded at Cypriot airports, and it...

July 20th, 2017The United States has ended a four month ban on passengers carrying laptops onboard US bound flights from certain airports in the Middle East and North Africa, bringing to an end one of the controversial travel restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump's administration.
Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport was the last...

March 10th, 2017Nearly all flights were cancelled at Berlin's two airports on Friday due to strike action by ground staff, who want an increase in pay to €12 ($12.71) from €11 an hour.
Berlin Airport, which operates Tegel and Schoenefeld, said 455 flights had been cancelled at Tegel and 204 at Schoenefeld as of 0615 GMT. The strike is due to run...

February 21st, 2017The civil aviation department on Tuesday asked the public to refrain from flying kites around Paphos and Larnaca airports on Green Monday.
The department warned that kites flying near the runways may endanger flights and cause concern for pilots.
Green Monday, the start of the Greek Orthodox Lent which is on February 27 this year...

January 9th, 2017Hermes Airports, which operates Cyprus’s international airports in Larnaca and Paphos, said that it served 8,974,163 passengers in 2016, 18 per cent more than in 2015 and expects the trend to continue in 2017.
The number of passengers serviced in Larnaca rose almost 25 per cent while those in Paphos rose 2.6 per cent, Hermes said in...

November 4th, 2016More than one million passengers travelled via the Republic’s two international airports in October, setting a new record, it was announced on Friday.
“Between October 1 and October 31 this year, 738,275 passengers passed through Larnaca international airport, and Paphos international airport handled 270,983 passengers,” airport...

October 8th, 2016All flights to and from Greece will be affected by the 48-hour strike staged by Greek air-traffic controllers, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (Acta) warned on Saturday.
In a statement, Acta said that the strike will start at midnight Saturday and end midnight Monday, but may resume on Wednesday and Thursday, October 12 and...

July 7th, 2016The unions representing ground services providers Swissport and LGS at Larnaca and Paphos airports which staged work stoppages earlier in the week, said on Thursday they did not rule out escalating measures.
Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC, PEO union’s representative Savvas Touloupos, said that workers were willing to enter a...

May 31st, 2016Hotels are overbooking rooms by up to five times, sometimes eight times, and are then forced to stop selling, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) has warned in a letter to the ministry of tourism.
In the letter, copied to the Cyprus Tourism Organisation and to the hoteliers association, ACTA said that unless the phenomenon...

May 30th, 2016The ministry of labour and social insurance was unsuccessful in its attempt to mediate between ground handling companies at Cyprus’s airports and its workers, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday.
A two-hour meeting sponsored by the ministry’s department of industrial relations failed to help Swissport Cyprus Ltd and LGS...

April 27th, 2016Airline passengers travelling through Germany are set for a day of disruption after public sector workers at airports started strikes in a bid to push for higher wages.
Lufthansa, Germany's largest carrier, said it was cancelling almost 900 flights at airports including Frankfurt and Munich, equivalent to around 60 percent of its...

April 1st, 2016FOLLOWING passenger uproar over recent delays at passport control at Paphos airport, the government is not only planning to offload screening to a private company to free up immigration police, but is in preliminary talks with European and Japanese tech companies to replace border officers entirely by 2020, the Cyprus Mail has...

March 8th, 2016Airports operator Hermes this year marks 10 years of operation and what it called a “significant contribution to the economy, society and tourism of Cyprus”.
In the context of the anniversary celebrations, Hermes said it had adopted a new anniversary logo highlighting the company’s revamped profile “and dynamic track...

February 3rd, 2016The government is not opposed to examining ways to reduce airport charges but not in such as way that would benefit only one party, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Tuesday.
Demetriades made the comment during a presentation at the annual conference of the Cyprus Hotel Association (PASYXE) in Nicosia on the topic of the...

January 24th, 2016By Barbara Goldberg and Idrees Ali
A blizzard that has paralyzed much of the U.S. East Coast intensified on Saturday, bringing Washington to a standstill and forcing the closure of roads, bridges and tunnels into New York until Sunday morning.
In all, there were at least 19 deaths in several states related to the storm. It ranked...

January 23rd, 2016A massive blizzard that began dumping snow on the southern and eastern United States, spurring mass flight cancellations and causing seven states to declare a state of emergency, has killed nine people, according to the New York Times on Saturday.
The deaths occurred on the roads, it said.
More than two feet of snow was predicted...

January 13th, 2016By Stelios Orphanides and Andria Kades
Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Wednesday that the government was considering transferring part of the responsibility for the security at the island’s international airports from the police to private sector companies.
“Most of the responsibility for the security of airports...

December 14th, 2015Greece's leftist government on Monday signed its first big privatisation deal with German airport operator Fraport, awarding it a 1.2 billion euro ($1.32 billion)contract to lease and manage 14 regional airports.
Privatisations have been a key condition of Greece's international bailouts since 2010. But Athens has raised only about...

December 10th, 2015By Andria Kades
Around 120 army officers from the National Guard will be posted to the police force after training by the anti terrorism unit it emerged on Thursday.
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou, commenting on reports that army officers were to join police ranks, said measures improving security, approved by Cabinet “could not...

September 23rd, 2015Hermes Airports in cooperation with the ministry of transport, communication and works will be inviting an expression of interest for the old Larnaca and Paphos airports grounds within the next few days, Hermes Airports spokesman Adamos Aspis told the Cyprus News Agency.
Aspris explained that the invitation would be issued not only in...

September 9th, 2015By Andria Kades
Despite some improvement, dust levels remained high on Wednesday across the island, the met office said, as the opening of public schools, scheduled for Thursday, was postponed by one day.
The Cyprus Institute said the dust cloud was seriously worrying with the readings in the dust’s diameter at three milligrammes...

By continuing to use the Cyprus Mail, you agree to the use of cookies. more information

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.